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“I’Ve Got The Data, Now What?:” Making Sense Of Assessment Data, Larry D. Long

Larry D. Long

How to analyze and interpret qualitative and quantitative assessment data

South Sea Slavery: Voices From The Dark, Gemma Tamock, Soraya Hosni, Thomas Dick

Thomas Dick

The status of South Sea Island sugar cane labourers in 19th century Queensland has been hotly debated since the very beginning of the labour trade in 1863.

The official historical perspective is that Island labourers were indentured workers, recruited and contracted in their native lands, brought to Australia to work for three years and then returned to their islands. Though acknowledging that kidnappings were common in the early years of the labour trade, historians maintain that the labourers signed contracts and were paid, therefore negating the claims of Islander descendants that they were slaves. There are many stories passed down …

Positioning Of Volunteer Interpreters In The Field Of Public Service Interpreting In Spanish Hospitals: A Bourdieusian Perspective, Maria A. Aguilar-Solano

Maria Aguilar-Solano

This thesis sets out to investigate the field of public service interpreting in southern Spain, with a particular emphasis on the position of volunteer interpreters working at two different healthcare institutions. It looks at the power relationships that develop between agents that hold different degrees of control and autonomy, especially in a context where individuals hold different forms and volume of capital in each encounter. Drawing on Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice, the study offers an in-depth examination of a group of volunteer interpreters as legitimate agents of the wider field of public service interpreting and the sub-field of healthcare interpreting, …

Venezuela Y Las Incertidumbre Electorales, Augusto Reina

Augusto Reina

Con trece años al frente del Poder Ejecutivo de Venezuela, Chávez es el presidente más longevo de América Latina. La inesperada noticia de su enfermedad es el sacudón que más incertidumbre ha introducido al proceso electoral venezolano que promete ser una de los eventos políticas más seguidos del año. La popularidad del presidente Chávez ha sido muy volátil desde que se dio a conocer su enfermedad. Una corriente de empatía inicial le ha reportado mejores niveles de imagen y aún conserva buena parte de su capital político. Pero ahora que dio a conocer una recaída y una vuelta a los …

Estrategia Malvinas: Mantener La Llama Encendida, Augusto Reina

Augusto Reina

Una forma de analizar las estrategias de comunicación es según sus objetivos tanto de mínima como de máxima. ¿Cuáles de ellos se cumplieron?, ¿cuales falta cumplir?, ¿Que sucesos positivos-negativos se desencadenaron llevando a cabo la estrategia? En el presente artículo se desarrolla un análisis de la estrategia desarrollado por el gobierno argentino durante el 2012, para hacer notar su reclamo sobre la soberania de Malvinas.

¿El Cambio Está De Moda? Un Panorama Político Sobre América Latina., Augusto Reina

Augusto Reina

El cambio político es la tendencia europea pero no así en América Latina, lo que está comenzando a marcar todo un cambio de época. Parece ser que esta tempo-rada la moda europea no llega a América Latina. La ráfaga de movilizaciones socia-les y sacudones económicos, agilizaron los tiempos políticos del viejo continente. Los electores, frente al estancamiento económico y la percepción de falta de rumbo, han optado por el cambio en varios países que han realizado elecciones. Ni giro a la izquierda ni giro a la derecha, la apuesto al cambio ha sido la principal consigna.

Modeling Customer Behavior And Social Relations With Analytical Profiles, Jerzy Surma

Jerzy Surma

Contemporary companies try to build customer relationship management systems based on the customersocial relations and behavioral patterns. This is in correspondence with the current trend in marketing thatis to move from broadcast marketing operation to a one-to-one marketing. The key issue in this activity ispredicting to which products or services a particular customer was likely to respond to. In order to buildcustomer relationship management systems, companies have to learn to understand their customer inthe broader social context. The key hypothesis in this approach is that the predictors of behavior in thefuture are customers behavior patterns in the past. This is …

Automating The Reporting Of Survey Data, Larry D. Long

Larry D. Long

The presentation explains how to automate the reporting of assessment data using the mailmerge feature in MS Word.

Youth Representatives’ Opinions On Recruiting And Representing Young Workers: A Twofold Unsatisfied Demand?, Kurt Vandaele

Kurt Vandaele

Unionization levels are far lower among young workers than for the workforce in general. How can trade unions become more responsive to their particular interests and needs? Union confederations, even in countries with decentralized union structures, have the potential to take effective initiatives to facilitate and support new organizing strategies targeted at young workers, for example by spreading knowledge, practical skills and vision of relevance for improving the representation and recruitment of young workers. Yet the survey findings reported here show that youth representatives across Europe find their confederations’ responsiveness and commitment to organizing to be inadequate. Their dissatisfaction confirms …

Do Unions And Worker Representation Bodies Make For More Or Less Inequality?, Aline Conchon, Stefan Clauwaert, Romek Jagodzinski, Isabelle Schömann, Michael Stoltt, Kurt Vandaele, Sigurt Vitols

Kurt Vandaele

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Mapping Unions In The ‘New Member States’ In Gardawski, J., Mrozowicki, A., Czarzasty, J., Country Report: Trade Unions In Poland. Report 123. Brussels, Etui, Pp.5-10., Kurt Vandaele

Kurt Vandaele

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Welcome To Library And Information Science, Jenna K. Hartel

Jenna Hartel

This paper enacts the following scenario: At an orientation session for a library and information science (LIS) program an educator gives incoming students a brief address entitled “Welcome to Library and Information Science.” Three versions of that talk are offered here, drawn from seminal works by Shera (1973a), White (1992), and Bates (1999). In turn, each author is introduced, the historical and literary context of the article is noted, and then its unique characterization of LIS is presented in a spoken rhetorical style. The three disquisitions are followed by discussion questions designed to engage newcomers and observations on the pedagogical …

Visual Approaches And Photography For The Study Of Immediate Information Space, Jenna K. Hartel, Leslie Thomson

Jenna Hartel

This methods-oriented paper introduces visual methods and specifically photography to study immediate information space (Lee, 2003); that is, information-rich settings such as offices or homes. It draws upon the authors’ firsthand ethnographic field experiences, a review of relevant theoretical and methodological literature, and an analysis of cases within information studies that have made use of visual and photographic techniques. To begin, the traditions of visual research within anthropology and sociology are traced and major epistemological, methodological, and disciplinary debates associated with visual scholarship are presented. Then, investigations of immediate information space that utilize photography are analyzed, including examples from the …

State Of The Art/Science: Visual Methods And Information Behavior Research, Jenna Hartel, Dianne Sonnenwald, Anna Lundh, Nancy Foster

Jenna Hartel

This panel reports on methodological innovation now underway as information behavior scholars begin to experiment with visual methods. The session launches with a succinct introduction to visual methods by Jenna Hartel and then showcases three exemplar visual research designs. First, Dianne Sonnenwald presents the "information horizon interview" (1999, 2005), the singular visual method native to the information behavior community. Second, Anna Lundh (2010) describes her techniques for capturing and analyzing primary school children’s information activities utilizing video recordings. Third, Nancy Fried Foster (Foster & Gibbons, 2007) reports how students, staff and faculty members produce maps, drawings, and photographs as a …

The Interdisciplinary Study Of Information, Jenna Hartel, Steve Fuller, Susan Bonnici, Rick Szostak

Jenna Hartel

To mark the 75th anniversary of ASIS&T this panel addresses the nature and recent history of the field of information science. It uses as a springboard The Study of Information: Interdisciplinary Messages, a collection of writings edited by economist Fritz Machlup and Una Mansfield (1983). More than a quarter of a century ago, The Study of Information (for short) presented the mandates of nine research specialties centered on information, namely: cognitive science, informatics, artificial intelligence, linguistics, library and information science, cybernetics, information theory, and systems theory. By illuminating the concerns, similarities, and differences of these related domains the book established …

Różnorodność Metod I Narzędzi W Badaniach Jakościowych, Dariusz Jemielniak

Dariusz Jemielniak

Wstęp do podręcznika "Badania jakościowe: Metody i narzędzia" przybliża kwestię zróżnicowania i wielości narzędzi w metodach jakościowych i podstawowych rozróżnień szkół i podejść w badaniach jakościowych.